"owned ""America"" to rewrite the deed to discourage inland-based yacht clubs from challenging the Cup. This revised Deed incorporated, among other things, the following rules: the challenger’s yacht club's annual regatta must take place on the sea or on an arm of the sea, and the challenging boat must sail to the site of the contest on her own bottom, as the yacht ""America"" did when first winning the cup in England. In 1887, the challenging yacht’s hull was much longer than originally stated by the challenger, a potential advantage. The difference alarmed the N.Y.Y.C., but they rectified the situation"
"part of 2021. The cup was originally awarded in 1851 by the Royal Yacht Squadron for a race around the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, which was won by the schooner ""America"". The trophy, originally named the '£100 Cup', was renamed the America's Cup after the yacht and was donated to the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) under the terms of the Deed of Gift, which made the cup available for perpetual international competition. Any yacht club that meets the requirements specified in the deed of gift has the right to challenge the yacht club that holds the"
"1958 America's Cup The 1958 America's Cup marked the first Cup match sailed in 12-metre class yachts. Twenty years had passed since the last Cup match, held between immense Universal Rule J-class yachts in 1937, and the New York Yacht Club sought a more affordable alternative to restart interest in the Cup. In 1956 Henry Sears led an effort advancing class yachts. The Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain agreed to challenge with a new 12-metre, ""Sceptre"". The New York Yacht Club defended with theirs, ""Columbia"", winning the Cup four races to none. Four yachts competed in a summer long"
"rules which included the 'Flying Start' used today. Bringing yacht racing to the forefront of public life, the America's Cup was first raced in 1851 between the New York Yacht Club and the Royal Yacht Squadron. Not ruled or regulated by measurement criteria as today, it is the second-place finisher was Aurora, ""and but for the fact that time allowance had been waived for the race she would have been the winner by a handsome margin."" Subsequently, the Cup races were conducted, usually every 3–4 years, based on a challenge issued by one club to the current Cup holder, which"
"format of the competition, with Ashbury seeking legal advice. Eventually it was agreed that the first yacht to win four races would be the victor. ""Livonia"" was opposed by Franklin Osgood's ""Columbia"". ""Columbia"" won the first two races, although Ashbury claimed the second on a technicality. ""Livonia"" won the third race with the ""Columbia"" being damaged. ""Sappho"" was chosen to replace the ""Columbia"" to continue the challenge and subsequently won the next two races and thus defended the cup for the New York Club. Ashbury refused to accept the decision, claiming to have won two races to the Americans' three"
"is an old monetary unit of one pound and one shilling, now £1.05). Today, the trophy is officially known as the ""America's Cup"" after the 1851 winning yacht, and is affectionately called the ""Auld Mug"" by the sailing community. It is inscribed with names of the yachts that competed for it, and has been modified twice by adding matching bases to accommodate more names. In 1851 Commodore John Cox Stevens, a charter member of the fledgling New York Yacht Club (NYYC), formed a six-person syndicate to build a yacht with intention of taking her to England and making some money"
"in the family crypt located under Christ Church in South Amboy, New Jersey. Stevens was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1994 and the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2012. John Cox Stevens John Cox Stevens (September 24, 1785 – June 13, 1857) is best known for founding and serving as the first Commodore of the New York Yacht Club as well as being a member of the ""America"" syndicate which, in 1851, won the trophy that would become the America's Cup. Stevens was born at his family's estate at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey"
"cup. If the challenging club wins the match, it gains stewardship of the cup. The history and prestige associated with the America's Cup attracts not only the world's top sailors and yacht designers but also the involvement of wealthy entrepreneurs and sponsors. It is a test not only of sailing skill and boat and sail design, but also of fundraising and management skills. The trophy was held by the NYYC from 1857 (when the syndicate that won the cup donated the trophy to the club) until 1983. The NYYC successfully defended the trophy twenty-four times in a row before being"
"on his second and final expedition to Antarctica in 1910. In August 2013, the members of Royal Yacht Squadron voted to allow full membership to women, which had been restricted since its foundation. In 1851, the club's commodore, visiting the Great Exhibition, issued a challenge for the squadron's £100 Cup for a race around the island. The New York City–based ""America"", representing the New York Yacht Club, triumphed in this race, giving its name to one of the oldest and best-known trophies: the America's Cup. The victory was witnessed by Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales, later commodore of"
"was raced in waterline multihull yachts in a best of three ""deed of gift"" match in Valencia, Spain. The victorious Golden Gate Yacht Club then elected to race the 2013 America's Cup in AC72 foiling, wing-sail catamarans. Golden Gate Yacht Club successfully defended the cup. The 35th America's Cup match was announced to be sailed in 50 ft foiling catamarans. The history of the America's Cup has included legal battles and disputes over rule changes including most recently over the rule changes for the 2017 America's Cup. The America's Cup is currently held by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron,"
"competing in yachting regattas and match races. The syndicate contracted with pilot boat designer George Steers for a schooner, which was christened ""America"" and launched on 3 May 1851. On 22 August 1851, ""America"" raced against 15 yachts of the Royal Yacht Squadron in the Club's annual regatta around the Isle of Wight. ""America"" won, finishing 8 minutes ahead of the closest rival. Apocryphally, Queen Victoria, who was watching at the finish line, was reported to have asked who was second, the famous answer being: ""Ah, Your Majesty, there is no second."" The surviving members of the ""America"" syndicate donated"
"""Gipsy Queen"", ""Ione"", ""Mona"", ""Volante"", and ""Wyvern"". The trophy would be renamed ""America's Cup"" after the yacht ""America"", that won the trophy. In 1857, the competition for ""America's Cup"" was declared, with the creation of the deed of gift. The first challenge would take place in 1870 under the deed of gift. This would initiate the oldest championship in sport. 1851 America's Cup The 100 Guineas Cup or Hundred Guinea Cup (£100 Cup) regatta of 1851 was the first competition for the America's Cup trophy. Originally, Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns, the value of the trophy was 100 pounds-sterling, hence"
"Yacht Club and proposing an annual one-on-one match-race series in 6-Meter yachts. In his letter he expressed the propriety of ""my returning a British Royal trophy to the custody of your club, with its long record of clean sportsmanship and keenly contested races between your Bermuda yachts and ours of Long Island Sound, and elsewhere..."" The first winner of the Cup in its new format was Briggs Cunningham in 1937. He was also the first skipper to win the America's Cup in a 12-Meter racing yacht. All but one route (Route 6) in Bermuda start from the bus terminal in"
"regatta to determine which the NYYC would name as defender, ""Columbia"" (US-16), a new Olin Stephens boat, ""Weatherly"" (US-17), ""Easterner"" (US-18), and the Olin Stephens designed ""Vim"" (US-15) from 1939. ""Columbia"" was chosen after a very close set of races resulted in only beating the 19-year-old ""Vim"" by 12 seconds in the final competition. 1958 America's Cup The 1958 America's Cup marked the first Cup match sailed in 12-metre class yachts. Twenty years had passed since the last Cup match, held between immense Universal Rule J-class yachts in 1937, and the New York Yacht Club sought a more affordable alternative"
"a three-time winner of the America's Cup, was one of the leading sailors of his day. The ""Atlantic"" sailed to victory in record time, establishing trans-Atlantic mono-hull records that stood for 100 years. The AYC's entry, the yacht ""Thistle"", a schooner built in 1901 by New York's Townsend & Dourney, and owned and skippered by Robert E Tod, finished 10th. Tod, a New York investment banker, was the only owner-skipper in the regatta. The Atlantic Yacht Club's Seagate clubhouse burned down in 1933. The club soldiered on for a number of years thereafter, becoming inactive in the 1950s. The club"
"exhibited in June 2011 in San Francisco Bay in concert with exploratory preparations by the Oracle Racing team for the 2013 America's Cup race, to be held within the bay. She is now owned by Troy Sears's company Next Level Sailing, and sails around the world as an official licensed partner for the America’s Cup Tour. A third replica was built in Varna, Bulgaria in 2005. Christened ""Skythia"", the boat's home port today is Rostock, Germany, where she is used for commercial charter. America (yacht) America was a 19th-century racing yacht and first winner of the America's Cup international sailing"
"Cup as a prize for the winner of the challenger selection series. Early matches for the cup were raced between yachts on the waterline owned by wealthy sportsmen. This culminated with the J-Class regattas of the 1930s. After World War II and almost twenty years without a challenge, the NYYC made changes to the deed of gift to allow smaller, less expensive 12-metre class yachts to compete; this class was used from 1958 until 1987. It was replaced in 1990 by the International America’s Cup Class which was used until 2007. After a long legal battle, the 2010 America's Cup"
"be able to sail fast safely but with a range of speeds, all that we knew we could master from a technological point of view”. Pascal Bidégorry skipper of Maxi Banque Populaire V. BMW Oracle winner America's Cup 33 - Deed of Gift<br> The 33rd America's Cup was held under a strict Deed of Gift rules: The first team to win two out of three races is the winner of the 33rd America’s Cup. It was specified by the cup holder SNG that the match be sailed in yachts by , and so the Golden Gate Yacht Club developed their"
"was the first America's Cup defender to concede a win to the challenger. As ""Columbia"" was further damaged in this third race, she was unable to compete in the final races. The yacht ""Sappho"" substituted and won the America's Cup for the second time for the U.S. ""Columbia"" ended her racing career in 1908, when she was dismasted and used as a houseboat in Brooklyn Harbor on the East River. Three years later she was rebuilt and sailed as a cruiser out of Newport News, VA. In 1920, ""Columbia"" was bought by a fisherman. She was declared lost in 1923."
"40 seconds in corrected time to successfully defend the cup. ""The World"" reported it as the fastest race ever sailed, over a course of 15 miles to windward and return under reefed sail and a gale. In 1894 ""Vigilant"" was bought by Howard Gould and became the first America's Cup defender to sail in Europe for the British yachting season. In the Mount's Bay Regatta of July 28, 1894 the Vigilant was piloted by Benjamin Nicholls of Penzance and the Prince of Wales's (later Edward VII) yacht Britannia was piloted by Ben's brother Philip Nicholls. The Britannia won by just"
"Young America (1994 yacht) Young America (USA-36) is an American International America's Cup Class yacht that unsuccessfully defended the 1995 America's Cup. ""Young America"" was built for the PACT 95 racing syndicate, based in Maine and led by John Marshall, for the 1995 Citizen Cup. The Team Dennis Conner syndicate, sailing ""Stars & Stripes"" (USA-34), won the Citizen Cup and the right to defend the America's Cup against the challenge of Team New Zealand, sailing the yacht ""Black Magic"" (NZL 32). Judging that the ""Young America"" yacht was the fastest of the regatta, Team Dennis Conner petitioned and was granted"
"the cup via the Deed of Gift of the America's Cup to the NYYC on 8 July 1857, specifying that it be held in trust as a perpetual challenge trophy to promote friendly competition among nations. No challenge to race for the Cup was issued until British railway tycoon James Lloyd Ashbury's topsail schooner ""Cambria"" (188 tons, 1868 design) beat the Yankee schooner ""Sappho"" (274.4 tons, 1867 design) in the Solent in 1868. This success encouraged the Royal Thames Yacht Club in believing that the cup could be brought back home, and officially placed the first challenge in 1870. Ashbury"
"eldest son, was the first commodore of the New York Yacht Club. He and his brother Edwin built the yacht ""America"" and were aboard its 1851 regatta victory in England, later recognized as the first winner of the America's Cup; the competition bears the namesake of Stevens' yacht. The NY Yacht Club would defend its title until the 1983 race. Edwin died in 1868. In his will, he left a bequest for the establishment of an ""institution of learning,"" providing his trustees with land and funds. Edwin’s will was executed by surviving wife Martha Stevens who would also serve as"
"Mischief (yacht) The yacht Mischief was the victorious American defender of the fourth America's Cup race in 1881 against Canadian challenger ""Atalanta"". The centerboard compromise sloop ""Mischief"" was designed by Archibald Cary Smith and built by Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware in 1879 for English owner Joseph Richard Busk of the New York Yacht Club. She was built of iron construction, the second all-metal yacht to be built in the United States. Nicknamed ""The Iron Pot"", ""Mischief"" was the victorious defender of the fourth America's Cup challenge in 1881. She was skippered by Nathanael 'Than' Clock during the race."
"letters with Gordon Bennett, sportsman and owner of the New York Herald, challenging him to a trans-Atlantic race, prior to competing for the cup on behalf of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. In July 1870 Ashbury raced ""Cambria"" across the Atlantic Ocean from Ireland to New York in challenge against Bennett's yacht, ""Dauntless"". ""Cambria"" won the race by arriving first off Sandy Hook lightship in 23 days 5 hours and 17 minutes; 1 hour 43 minutes ahead of ""Dauntless"". The race for the America's Cup was held on 8 August, with ""Cambria"" facing 14 yachts of the New York Yacht"
"1817, when naval architect Henry Steers relocated to New York City with his sons James Rich Steers (1808-1896) and George Steers. James would go on to co-found the boat-building concern George Steers and Co with George, who is perhaps best known as the designer of the yacht America, winner of the first America's Cup race. James Sr. was succeeded in the business by his own son Henry Steers, born in 1832. A number of American Steers family members, including company founder and owner James Rich Steers Jr. (d. 1936), his brother, also named Henry Steers (1865-1928), and Henry Coster Steers"
"John Cox Stevens John Cox Stevens (September 24, 1785 – June 13, 1857) is best known for founding and serving as the first Commodore of the New York Yacht Club as well as being a member of the ""America"" syndicate which, in 1851, won the trophy that would become the America's Cup. Stevens was born at his family's estate at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey on September 24, 1785. He was the eldest son of Col. John Stevens, a revolutionary war veteran, pioneer in steamboats, and purchaser of what is now Hoboken, and Rachel Cox, who was from New"
"Kaiser's Cup Kaiser's Cup was a yachting race across the Atlantic between Sandy Hook, New Jersey (USA) and The Lizard (Cornwall, England). This was a famous sailing race of the day, and was won by the yacht ""Atlantic"" which held the record for nearly a century In 1905 out of eleven contenders, it was won by the yacht ""Atlantic"", which set a time record for the crossing the Atlantic ocean. The race was the subject of the 1905 silent film ""Start of Ocean Race for Kaiser's Cup"", and the book, ""Atlantic: The Last Great Race of Princes"". Second place was"
"money was the objective among most members. In 1851, a syndicate of NYYC enthusiasts built and raced ""America"", capturing the ""One Hundred Sovereign Cup"" at the annual regatta of the Royal Yacht Squadron. On July 8, 1857, the coveted trophy was donated to the NYYC, to serve as a challenge cup for sportsmanlike competition between nations. The ""America's Cup Race"", named for its first winner, played a central role in the history of the club until this day. In 1865, the Club was incorporated, adopting the Latin motto: ""Nos agimur tumidis velis"" -- ""We go with swelling sails"" (adapted from"
"place in the Solent. The ""America"" won the race and took the trophy, the America's Cup, back to the US where, held by the New York Yacht Club, it remained until 1983. The cup was then lost to the Royal Perth Yacht Club of Australia, which entered the ""Australia II"" into the contest. Meanwhile, yacht racing continued to evolve, with the development of recognised classes of racing yachts, from small dinghies up to huge maxi yachts. Although there are many different types of racing vessels, they can generally be separated into the larger yachts, which are larger and contain facilities"
"nearly 100 years until beaten in 1997 by the yacht ""Nicorette"" completing the crossing in 11 days 13 hours 22 minutes. Barr died whilst visiting Southampton, England on 24 January 1911; he is buried in Southampton Old Cemetery. Charlie Barr Charles Barr (11 July 1864 – 24 January 1911), was an accomplished sailing skipper who three times captained winning America's Cup yachts. Charlie Barr was born in Gourock, Scotland in 1864 and first apprenticed as a grocer before working as a commercial fisherman. In 1884, he took a job with his older brother John, delivering a sailing yacht, ""Clara"", to"
"Dickson, William H. Northam, William G. Walkley, and Noel Foley. She was helmed by Jock Sturrock. 1962 America's Cup The 1962 America's Cup, the second to be sailed in 12-metre yachts, marked the first challenge for the Cup from a country other than Great Britain or Canada, and was the first challenge from a country in the southern hemisphere. An Australian syndicate headed by Sir Frank Packer, representing the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, challenged with their yacht ""Gretel."" Although the New York Yacht Club won the regatta four races to one represented by the yacht ""Weatherly,"" the challenger, ""Gretel"" won"
"1851 America's Cup The 100 Guineas Cup or Hundred Guinea Cup (£100 Cup) regatta of 1851 was the first competition for the America's Cup trophy. Originally, Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns, the value of the trophy was 100 pounds-sterling, hence its names, variations on 100 Pound Cup. The race was won by the yacht ""America"", leading to the trophy being renamed ""America's Cup"". The 1851 competition was the first to compete for the trophy now called the ""America's Cup"", hence the 1851 America's Cup or 0th America's Cup being zeroth, sequentially preceding the first America's Cup of 1870. The event"